Jessica Hammond is a Northern Irishsinger songwriter. Jessica is a previous winner of the 2010 Northern IrelandBelfast CityBeat competition Young Star Search developed by Stuart Robinson. Before winning Young Star Search, Jessica Hammond has been a finalist on the Disney Channel UK talent search My Camp Rock in April 2009. She is from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Jessica Hammond fought off competition from thousands of hopefuls to secure her place in the contest, along with 7 other acts. The show aims to find a young music star aged 8 to 16. She sang Here I Am from the Camp Rock soundtrack at the Camp Jam, Gary Lloyd, Zoe Tyler and R&B star Craig David sat on the judging panel responsible for whittling the finalists down from eight to four, along with the head of Walt Disney Records in Europe, who released the winning track. The Final Jam aired on 24 April 2009. Jessica Hammond has written songs, Try Again, No Doubt, My Boyfriend, Star and Cheater which received Radio play on Citybeat Radio & Q Radio. YouTube. Jessica is currently signed to DWB Publishing London, and has had chart success with ‘Picture’ written by Jessica Hammond & Ollie Green. After much success as an artist Jessica currently works from ‘Black Studios’ A small recording studio in East Belfast in which many local acts have recorded. Jessica Also received a PRS songwriting award. . By age six she was singing, by age 10 Jessica had completed vocalist grades first to third with the British School of Music and by eleven she was playing the guitar. She began playing the saxophone, Bass and drums age 16 just for fun" Jessica then became a fully qualifiedsound engineer “wanting to know her way around the studio”. She described her music style as rock-pop. In 2012, Jessica auditioned for the first UK series of The Voice, and progressed to the Battle Rounds as part of Jessie J's team, Being the youngest and one of 140 out of over 20,000 applicants to get through, after all four judges turned around for her but was eliminated in the Battle Rounds after losing to Vince Kidd. Jessica then signed with Julian White MGMT and Toured UK & Ireland. She then took an extended break from touring writing and working with artists at Power Studios amongst other names like Jake Gosling.
